Update, Sept. 5: We’ve gone hands-on with Samsung’s revamped Galaxy Fold ahead of its revised release later this month. Original story, last updated in May, follows. Samsung may have come up with solutions for the Galaxy Fold’s defects weeks after review units experienced screen breaks, flickering and bulges. The Korean electronics giant solved the problem with the …

We still may not know when Sprint’s 5G network will be turned on, but we know where it’ll happen first. And now we know when its first 5G devices will be available.  On Thursday the company announced that it will begin taking preorders for its first 5G phone and hotspot, LG’s V50 ThinQ 5G phone and the HTC 5G Hub …

After a wobbly 2018 where the company had to address a US government ban, ZTE seems to be finding its balance with the new Axon 10 Pro, a beautiful 4G flagship phone now available in Germany. Announced in February at the Mobile World Congress, the Axon 10 Pro is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor and comes with three rear-facing …

An executive order from President Donald Trump that effectively bans Huawei will leave the US “lagging behind in 5G deployment,” the Chinese networking giant reportedly said. The response, reported by Reuters, came after Trump signed an executive order that declares foreign adversary threats to communications networks, technology and services a national emergency. Trump’s order, called Securing the Information and Communications …

Instagram is bringing three new updates to its Explore feature, including a new navigation bar for shopping and IGTV. The changes will make it easier to find the people, creators, communities and brands that users most want to see, the social network said. The first change is a fresh design of the navigation bar, including shortcuts to IGTV, shopping, food, …

Facebook has added data from surveys to better predict what pages users want at the top of their News Feed. Posts from family and friends, and news articles or videos from pages followed, will now be ranked at the very top of the page, Facebook said Thursday. The changes focus on quality of user experience over quantity of time spent …

This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. From Netflix to YouTube, streaming video is where our entertainment comes from these days. If your dad is yet to join the streaming revolution here are some easy gifts that will help bring him up to speed. If he needs a new …

We always thought Amazon’s entry-level tablet, the Fire 7 ($50, £50), was a good value, particularly when it was discounted by $10 or even $15 during flash sales. Now Amazon is updating it with a faster processor and bumping the base storage from 8GB to 16GB. The “all-new” Fire 7 is available for preorder now and will ship June 7. The …

Google has added sound events to its Live Transcribe app, which it said will help the hearing impaired become more immersed in the audio world. Live Transcribe will now transcribe not only speech, but also sounds like dogs barking, door-knocks, applause, laughter, music, whistling and passing cars, thanks to an update of Google’s machine learning and speech recognition technology. The …

Chinese tech giant Huawei says its blacklisting by the US will harm jobs, industry and economics in the states. “This decision is in no one’s interest,” Huawei said in a statement Thursday. “It will do significant economic harm to the American companies with which Huawei does business, affect tens of thousands of American jobs and disrupt the current collaboration and …

Now here’s a phone for cheapskates. The Coolpad Legacy is a 6.36-inch behemoth, squarely in phablet territory, but it has a list price of just $130. Unlike other big phones in this price range (such as the Blu R2 Plus), it doesn’t stick you with limited RAM, a low-resolution screen or a pokey processor. It looks and feels like a …

SanDisk is letting you put 1TB of data on a card the size of a fingernail. The company’s massive-but-minute Extreme microSD UHS-I Card is now available for $450, months after its reveal at Mobile World Congress. The product page, reported earlier by Tom’s Guide, notes read speeds up to 90MB/s and write speeds up to 60MB/s, which is a little …

This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. Like mom, dad’s given up a lot of life-respawning time to spawn little humans, as well as playing Fortnite with them when he’s more of a Forza Horizon 4 guy. Thank him for the sacrifices by helping him get back into his …

YouTube will amp up the content available on Facebook’s Oculus Quest virtual reality headset, with Google‘s massive video company saying its VR app will be among the launch titles for the closely watched device, which is set for release Tuesday.  That’ll make YouTube one of the most widely recognizable names for people wondering what you can actually watch on an Oculus …

Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G has finally arrived at Verizon.  Samsung’s first 5G phone starts at $1,300 for a 256GB version with a 512GB model available for $1,400.  Both come in “crown silver” or “majestic black,” a Verizon-exclusive hue.  We already knew that Samsung’s fastest phone would sell with Verizon first, before coming to other carriers.  Verizon ordering info is below. Note …